Coulee Bend Morgan Farm is a small morgan breeding farm with big goals. The goal is to breed high quality morgans that possess athleticism, beauty, brains, and most importantly have the dispositions that make them easy to train and easy to handle. The farm logo is ‘ Striving to raise show quality morgans that are family oriented’.
Coulee Bend Morgans is owned and operated by Lyle & Cindy Dietz, and is located 2 miles north of Galahad, Alberta, in beautiful central Alberta. Getting into raising horses was a way to diversify the farming operation on the existing family owned grain farm. By bringing in quality breeding animals, and promoting them on the local, National and Inter-National market, the goal that was set forth has become a reality.
The stallions we have stood at stud have offered World Class bloodlines, with sires including UVM Promise, Futurity French Command and UVM Vanir. The addition of our Silver Dapple stallion has added a colorful flair and a great outcross to our mare band. All the mares have either been show ring winners themselves, or are daughters of proven show ring winners. The bloodlines we have brought into Alberta are unique to Canadian breeders, and are proving to be very marketable.
All the foals born at Coulee Bend are handled from birth. We are present for the births of all the foals, and the handling starts immediately. The mares are comfortable with us being in the foaling stall and as soon as the foal is free of the mare, we start ‘imprinting’ the foals. Imprinting is something we consider to be invaluable in teaching a foal the basics of handling. They are rubbed all over until they are comfortable with the handling, taught to give to pressure, pick up their feet, and many other things that make their handling later on go much smoother.
We have shown our young horses in all levels of competition from local fairs, to Canada's largest Morgan Futurity (Alberta Futurity), to Class A shows in Canada and the United States right up to the World Level of showing in Oklahoma at the World Championship Morgan Horse Show and the World Morgan Futurity. Our breeding program has produced three World Champions and many more Grand National Champions. Our horses have been shown in In Hand, pleasure driving, western pleasure, hunter pleasure, classic pleasure, english pleasure, trail, Park, reining and dressage.
Outside breeding has always been a very big part of our business, and we offer individual mare pens to outside mares coming to the farm for breeding, as well as shipped semen to breeders in Canada and the United States. Lyle is a certified A.I. technician, and not only supervises the shipped semen, but does all the on farm A.I. breeding as well. Due to time constraints and health issues, we have had to drastically curtail our offering of outside breedings at this time.
We have both participated in and been quite active in the Alberta Morgan Horse Club as well as the Canadian Morgan Horse Association, holding various positions and working on committees. Lyle has served as Director and Vice-President in the Alberta Club, served as Zone Director and Western Vice-President of the Canadian Morgan Horse Association and served two terms as President of the Canadian Morgan Horse Association. Cindy had been the Co-ordinator of the Alberta Morgan MatchMaker sales list for 5 years and on the production team of the Alberta Morgan Directory. As well she as serving as Director in the Alberta Morgan Horse Club and served as a committee member on the Alberta Morgan Futurity.
Showing our horses is something that we have both enjoyed immensely, but time constraints due to conflicts with our farming schedule often saw us working at home while our horses were competing at shows with the trainers. When we were able to attend, Lyle thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of showing our In Hand horses, and has also moved on to Pleasure driving, and hunter pleasure. Cindy enjoyed the ‘behind the scenes’ work of spit polishing the horses for the show ring, providing ‘rail side’ encouragement and taking her turn in the ring showing in western pleasure! Lyles new passion is in combined driving and with his mare 'Lu' he hopes to make it to many more competitions.
We have made so many new friends through our horses, and it has been a wonderful experience to have gotten to know people all over Canada and the United States. Our sales have seen Coulee Bend horses travel from Florida to Washington, Maine to California, up to Alaska, all across Canada and most recently a sale to Australia !
We love raising our morgans although now it will be on a much smaller scale, and we invite you the check out our farm, our breeding program and our stock for sale.
Phone (780) 583-2128 - Fax (780) 583-2386
E-mail - lcdietz@cciwireless.ca
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